There will always be cynical articles predicting doom and gloom. Perhaps it will fail, but there are some big names behind it like Yves Behar whom I'm sure wouldn't want to be involved in a kickstarter scam.I'd like to stay optimistic about this.

The price tag looks impossibly low I do agree - just a plain beagleboard costs more than that. Either it is a low introductory price, or they will recoup their losses in their game marketplace.

They get 30% of every purchase and each game is try-before-you-buy. I'm curious whether they will manage to go with profit.

On another note their Kickstarter pledges have more or less died off now, going from ~700,000 pledges/24 hours to somewhere around ~7,000 pledges/24 hours. It's pretty much losing 99% of their Kickstarter-pledge-momentum.

The price tag looks impossibly low I do agree - just a plain beagleboard costs more than that. Either it is a low introductory price, or they will recoup their losses in their game marketplace.

They get 30% of every purchase and each game is try-before-you-buy. I'm curious whether they will manage to go with profit.

On another note their Kickstarter pledges have more or less died off now, going from ~700,000 pledges/24 hours to somewhere around ~7,000 pledges/24 hours. It's pretty much losing 99% of their Kickstarter-pledge-momentum.

Perhaps all the people interested bought the first day. 4M is quite the pool of money.

The price tag looks impossibly low I do agree - just a plain beagleboard costs more than that. Either it is a low introductory price, or they will recoup their losses in their game marketplace.

They get 30% of every purchase and each game is try-before-you-buy. I'm curious whether they will manage to go with profit.

On another note their Kickstarter pledges have more or less died off now, going from ~700,000 pledges/24 hours to somewhere around ~7,000 pledges/24 hours. It's pretty much losing 99% of their Kickstarter-pledge-momentum.

It was my understanding that the first couple days and the last couple days are the most intense for a lot of Kickstarter projects. They've also already exceeded the goal quite a bit which might be discouraging some from donating.

The price tag looks impossibly low I do agree - just a plain beagleboard costs more than that. Either it is a low introductory price, or they will recoup their losses in their game marketplace.

They get 30% of every purchase and each game is try-before-you-buy. I'm curious whether they will manage to go with profit.

On another note their Kickstarter pledges have more or less died off now, going from ~700,000 pledges/24 hours to somewhere around ~7,000 pledges/24 hours. It's pretty much losing 99% of their Kickstarter-pledge-momentum.

Last time I checked last night it was 4.45M and now its 4.67M. It's still over 200k at around 17-19hours timeline.

One thing that brings down costs a lot is that it doesn't have to be crammed in a tiny little case, so you can use cheaper conventional production methods.Also: no big OLED touch screen (the most expensive component), no tiger glass, no battery, no 3G/4G antenna, no SIM slot, no speaker.What I'm more worried about is the controller. Sure there are $10 controllers from China, but they can't exactly be described as "a love letter to games".

Production runs of custom boards are still going to be pricey unless you do it in very large batches. Then again if the Pi can sell for 25 quid, the costs must have come way way down. Still lots of externalities to consider though, like "where are the games?", because "if you build it they will come" is their model, they're still as sunk as the Bismarck.

100K is a small production run, but a very respectable batch size. FoxConn won't be beating down your door to send you a bid, but there are plenty of other manufacturers who would take that. Still don't see the total cost staying below $100 unless they ship you a board with no case or box ... or warranty.

I wasn't being clear. 50K, 100K initial run isn't sufficiently large enough to make a marked impact on your price-point. You're buying enough stuff from folks that they'll return your calls, but they ain't going be cutting you slack on price. Let's assume that the linked info on the nvidia chips is correct (because if it's on the internet, then it must be true) then they'll be falling at around the 25 USD end. That's pretty much game over for hitting 99 USD (+shipping/handling) to the consumer.

I wasn't being clear. 50K, 100K initial run isn't sufficiently large enough to make a marked impact on your price-point. You're buying enough stuff from folks that they'll return your calls, but they ain't going be cutting you slack on price. Let's assume that the linked info on the nvidia chips is correct (because if it's on the internet, then it must be true) then they'll be falling at around the 25 USD end. That's pretty much game over for hitting 99 USD (+shipping/handling) to the consumer.

Interestingly you can buy an Android tablet for about $75 with twice the storage, the same amount of RAM, a battery, camera, speaker, touchscreen etc. Obviously it has a weaker CPU/GPU and no controller, but there you go.

You're not blind, you should not have created this thread but you don't mind. I assume you will probably do it again and again. There is already a thread about Raspberry Pi, why not create yet another thread about it?

You're not blind, you should not have created this thread but you don't mind. I assume you will probably do it again and again. There is already a thread about Raspberry Pi, why not create yet another thread about it?

Whoa. I hate to ask people to cool off. How angry can we possibly get about this? In this specific case I agree that it's inconvenient, but really?

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